[Japanese Literature] Kawabata, Yasunari.

The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories.

Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1997. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This collection of 23 stories by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata are known for their deceptive simplicity, deep melancholy, and themes of loss, longing, and memory, often drawing from autobiographical events. The title story, "The Dancing Girl of Izu," is a famous work about a university student's encounter with a traveling dancer, which is a key example of Kawabata's early style. Item #29287

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